DHS Files Many Indictments in an Attack on Birth Tourism
By David North on February 9, 2019
Late last month federal prosecutors and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) filed 19 indictments against individuals involved in the birth tourism business, those facilitating and profiting from the practice of some wealthy aliens, mostly Chinese, giving birth within the United States, and thus creating instant citizenship for the baby.
The participants were charged with a wide variety of violations, including immigration fraud, money laundering, and cheating on U.S. income-tax returns, according to a press release from ICE.
As far as I could determine, none of the mothers were charged with the act of giving birth, but many of them, and their husbands, were indicted for related matters, such as lying to government officials, not paying their hospital bills, and fleeing the country rather than facing court actions. There was also no indication that the births of the infants would lead to any attempts to deny citizenship to the infants.
This is an interesting operation for several reasons, some more apparent than others:
https://cis.org/North/DHS-Files-Many-Indictments-Attack-Birth-Tourism
